Archaeology & Early Christian

An area where archaeologist dig things up from the past is called

• site 
• wash
• hole
• laboratory

Excavate means to

• look at something.

• dig something up.

• label something.

• name something.

A primary source is a source that was created at the time an event happened

• Primary

• Secondary

What is left of this building is located in Rome. What is it considered in archaeological terms?

• Artifact

• Fossil

• Ruin

• Museum

What is the name for the dating of a thing by measuring the amount of carbon -14 left in that dead object?

(a)  

Which of these dating methods can tell us what type of crops were grown by people in the past?

• Stratigraphy

• Radiocarbon dating

• Bones and coins

• Pollen analysis

Dendrochronology is

• Dating an object by how far down it was found in the soil

• Tree-Ring dating

• R

The first bishop to attempt to convert the Irish to Christianity was

(a)  

Which of these is a fact about St Patrick (more than 1 answer)

• He banished the snakes from Ireland

• He was responsible for converting many pagan Irish people to Christianity

• He wore a green cloak

• Our main information about St Patrick comes from a document called the confessio

What was the name for a priest in Celtic society

• Druid

• Brehon

• Filí

• Taoiseach